Administrative Options

• User administration
• Add network(s)
• Add device(s)
• CSV Import
• Discovery settings
  • Category discovery
  • CDP discovery
  • Re-Discovery
  • Credentials
• Access point settings
  • AAA server settings
  • VLAN settings
  • Rogue detection settings
• Other operations

User administration

WiFi Manager enables creation of multiple user accounts. You can add a user, change password for the user, and delete the user from the Web UI.

To create a new user, follow the procedure given below.

Procedure:

• Select Admin tab
• By default the User Configuration page will be displayed. Click on the Add User icon to bring up the add user UI.
• In the add user UI type the user name and password, and click Add User. A new user will be added.

Add network

You can add networks into WiFi Manager using this option. Adding a network enables WiFi Manager to discover and manage all the devices of that network.

To add a network, follow the procedure given below:

Procedure:

• Select Admin tab
• Choose Add Network option in the left hand side. This brings up the Add Network UI.
• Fill in the network IP address, netmask, SNMP port, read community values. In case of devices where you need to enable CLI discovery,you can provide the CLI port, login prompt, username, password prompt, password, and CLI prompt.
• Click Discover to trigger network discovery. The list of added networks will be listed down.

Add devices

You can add devices into WiFi Manager using this option. Adding a device (or a range of devices) enables WiFi Manager to discover and manage that particular device.

To add a device, follow the procedure given below:

Procedure:

• Select Admin tab
• Choose Add Device option in the left hand side. This brings up the Add Device UI.
• Fill in the network IP address, netmask, SNMP port, read/write community values. If you wish to do CLI discovery provide the CLI port, login prompt, username, password prompt, password, and CLI prompt. Choose Range of Devices option if you want to discover a range of IP addresses. Ex: 192.168.240.1 to 192.168.240.15
• Click Discover to trigger device discovery.

CSV import:

If the user instead of adding a network or a particular device, want to import a set of devices he wants to manage, he can do it by using this option. He can create a CSV file with the list of devices that he wants to manage and can import the same into WiFi Manager. He can also specify the Business View hierarchy using this file which will automate the creation of corresponding maps and symbols.

Under the Rogue Detection feature, there is provision to maintain a list of MAC addresses as Trusted MACs in WiFi Manager. Whenever a new Access Point/Mobile unit is added for discovery, its MAC is compared to the Trusted List of MACs that is maintained. Those MACs which do not match the trusted list are detected as Rogue APs/Clients. The Import from CSV file is useful in this case. Here, you can maintain the list of MACs in a CSV file and easily import these details into the Trusted AP list.To be able to import the details of the CSV file in this feature, the format of the CSV file is given below:

Note:The MAC Address should be given as the first column in each row of device details and the other fields can be given as per the administrator's choice.

Discovery Settings

Using this option you can configure the services discovery, CDP discovery, re-discovery, and also set some of the common discovery related credentials.

Category discovery

This configuration enables you to control the type of device that needs to be discovered by WiFi Manager.

Procedure:

• Select Admin tab
• Choose Category Discovery option in the left hand side.
• Enable the categories you want WiFi Manager to discover by choosing from the list. This helps in avoiding unwanted discovery of devices that you don't want to be monitored by WiFi Manager. But please note that for blocking access points it is required that the switch to which the AP is connected, is properly discovered by WiFi Manager.
• Click Update to finish.

To enable CDP discovery you have to provide WiFi Manager with the IP address of the seed Cisco device. To add the seed device follow the procedure given below.

Procedure:

• Select Admin tab
• Choose CDP Discovery option in the left hand side. This brings up the Add Seed Device UI.
• Fill in the IP address, netmask, SNMP port, and community string for the seed device.
• Click Discover to add the seed device.

 

Re-discovery

By default WiFi Manager re-discovers the added networks every 24 hours. To change this interval follow the procedure below.

Procedure:

• Select Admin tab
• Choose Re-Discovery option in the left hand side. This brings up the Re-discovery Settings UI.
• Change the re-discovery interval using the option provided in the UI.
• Click Save for the change to take effect.

 

Discovery credentials

Follow the procedure below to provide the common discovery credentials to WiFi Manager.

Procedure:

• Select Admin tab
• Choose Discovery Credentials option in the left hand side. This brings up the discovery credentials UI.
• Fill in SNMP credentials such as SNMP port, Read community, Write community, SNMP retries, SNMP timeout and CLI credentials such as Protocol, CLI port, Username, CLI password prompt, Login prompt, and CLI prompt.
• Click Save to finish.

 

AP Settings

Using this option you can configure things like AAA server or VLAN ids which can later be used during the security configurations of Access points.

AAA server settings

To add a AAA server, follow the procedure given below:

Procedure:

• Select Admin tab
• Choose AAA Server Settings option in the left hand side. This brings up the Configure AAA Server UI.
• Fill in the name/IP address, port, shared secret, timeout, and retries values.
• Click Add New to finish.

 

VLAN settings

To add a VLAN, follow the procedure given below:

Procedure:

• Select Admin tab
• Choose VLAN Settings option in the left hand side. This brings up the VLAN settings UI.
• Fill in the VLAN ID, VLAN Name, and Is native VLAN values.
• Click Update to finish.

 

Rogue detection settings:

To configure the rogue detection settings, follow the procedure given below:(Please refer our How tos document for details. )

Procedure To add/delete a MAC address to the authorized list

• Select Admin tab
• Choose Rogue Detection option in the left hand side.
• Fill in the MAC address of your access point or mobile unit (which you want to be identified as a authorized device) and click ADD. [Note: Marking the device as TRUSTED from the inventory tab also has the same effect.]
• Click Save to finish.

 

Procedure To add/delete SSID(s) to the authorized list

• Select Admin tab
• Choose Rogue Detection option in the left hand side.
• Fill in the SSID (which you want to be identified as a authorized SSID) and click ADD. [Note: All devices using this SSID will be assumed as authorized devices.]
• Click Save to finish.

 

Procedure: To add/delete a VENDOR to the authorized list

• Select Admin tab
• Choose Rogue Detection option in the left hand side.
• Choose the vendor name from the list or input the vendor's OUI and click add. All devices with this OUI will be assumed to be authorized devices. [Refer note below for details on what a OUI is.]
• Click Save to finish.

IEEE's Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI): To uniquely identify the vendor of every network device, IEEE provides this 6 digit number. The complete list of OUIs can be found from this url - http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml . OUI is nothing but the first 6 digits of the MAC address (Ex: 00 0f 24 c6 b6 41). WiFi Manager relies on this OUI to uniquely identify the AP vendor and it maintains its OUI list in a file named OUI.txt under C:/ProgramFiles/AdventNet/ME/WiFiManager/conf. Vendors keep updating this OUI as they roll out newer devices and this creates problems in WiFi Manager when the OUI.txt is not updated with the latest entries. In such cases you are advised to download the latest OUI.txt file from our website from this URL - http://www.manageengine./products/wifi-manager/oui.txt .

 

 

Procedure: To add/delete CHANNEL(s) to the authorized list

• Select Admin tab
• Choose Rogue Detection option in the left hand side.
• Choose the channel, which you want to be marked as authorized, and click add. All devices operating in this channel will be assumed to be authorized devices.
• Click Save to finish.

 

 

 

Other Operations

Using this option you can perform operations such as database maintenance, group servers, and configuring mail server.

 

1. Database maintenance

The following database related operations can be done using this UI:

 

Database	Parameter	Default Value
Alarms DB	Maintain _______ recent Alarms in the Database.	1000
Events DB	Delete Events older than __ days in the database	30
Performance DB	Detailed statistics will be maintained for the last _ days	7
	Hourly statistics will be maintained for the last_ days	30
	Daily statistics will be maintained for the last_ days	365
	Configuration History will be maintained for the last_ days	7
	Association History will be maintained for the last _ days	180

 

2. Configure mail server

To configure the mail server settings follow the procedure below:

Procedure:

• Select Admin tab
• Choose Configure Mail Server option in the left hand side.
• Fill in the SMTP server name/IP Address, port, username, and password.
• Click Save to finish

3. Poll Configuration

Poll configurations allows you to configure polling of the mobile clients and APs. This configuration helps to control the polling and the interval of polling at a global level.

Dependency configurations:

Dependency Configuration allows you to configure dependent devices(DownStream Devices) for a given parent device(UpStream Device). If so configured, WiFi Manager stops polling the dependent devices if the corresponding upstream device is down. This helps reduce the false alarms and also reduces the network traffic if the parent device is down.

Configuring Maintenance Tasks:

WiFi Manager allows you to configure the maintenance task and provides options to add/ delete a particular maintenance task. During this maintenance period, WiFi Manager will not be polling the devices there by avoids the false alarms and also doesn't chock the bandwidth with unnecessary polls.

 

Custom Monitors:

 

WiFi Manager by default support monitoring certain parameters of the device that it manages.In addition to these monitors,the users have the option to add new monitors by filling the values in these fields: After adding the custom monitors the users can associate those monitors to any device they want, provided the device has the support for the same. The user also has options to specify thresholds for these custom monitors.

Procedure:

Snmp OID : The user can browse and select the OID value from the browse button available.
Monitor Name : The name of the required monitor is to be filled (eg. Cisco2500Rx1, myCiscoGraph)
Display Name :This should contain the name of the monitor which is required in the display(eg. Dallas Router)
Polling Interval : Polling interval in minutes
Units : The units - kbps, Mbps, etc.

 

MAC To IP mapping: This feature facilitates you to map the MAC address of your device to the IP address and the respective Custom Display Name. WiFi Manager uses the mapped values of these devices to their corresponding IP address and Custom Display Name while discovering the devices in a network.

To be able to import the CSV details in WiFi Manager client, you can maintain a CSV file with the details of the device in the following order :

 

MAC Address,IPaddress,DNS name,Custom Display Name

Once the details are added to a CSV file in the above order, you can use the Browse button to provide the CSV file name and import the file in the above mentioned situations.